ACW 2020 Cost Information for Decision Making

Semester 1, 2014

Assessment Task 1: Group Assignment (15%)

Written Report (40 marks)

Word limit: 3,000 words (maximum)

Due date: Friday April 18 by 5.00 pm

Requirement:

Your group is required to select two (2) unrelated manufacturing companies, which are listed at

Bursa Malaysia (http://www.bursamalaysia.com/market/). Conduct an extensive research on the

company performance for the past 5 years.

Using publicly available data of your chosen company, attempt the following tasks:

1) Identify a vision, mission statement, objectives and strategies for each of the companies.

2) Define the cost terms that are related to the production activities of your chosen companies. Provide clear reasons for your explanation.

3) Perform the regression analysis based on the past 5 years to estimate the cost function for each of the chosen company. Explain and compare the result.

4) Explain the limitation of using publicly available data in performing the regression analysis (as requested in Part 3).

(8 + 12 + 15 + 5 = 40)